Jasmine B.

This place is not worth the money. Way overpriced for how old and outdated the complex is. I lived here for seven months and I'm never going back. The office staff is terrible. There is so much disfunction and miscommunication between the staff it's hard to know what's the truth. First of all they brag about being a "smoke free community" this is not true. I constantly smelled cigarette smoke. My neighbors blared trap music and smoked weed pretty much 24 hours a day. A lot of the neighbors are sketchy. I'm pretty sure someone was selling drugs out of one of the apartments in my building. It's a gated community but every uber driver and their mother knows the code and the gates are left open during the day. There are cops called pretty much every weekend. Parking is a nightmare. It cost $10 a month just to park in the complex and $20 on top of that for a carport which they actually blocked off a few times for no apparent reason and with no notice. The laundry rooms are pretty gross and expensive. It's a LOUD area, right next to a freeway and tons of planes from the airport flying over head all the time. And when it rains trees fall down left and right. Just hope they don't fall on you! However, what I'm most concerned about is that I moved out over 6 WEEKS AGO and I STILL HAVEN'T RECEIVED MY SECURITY DEPOSIT BACK. You have to give 60 days notice here when you move out which I did. I waited and about 2 weeks before my move out date and I still hadn't heard anything from the office so I went in to check what the move out procedure was since every place is different. Anthony who works in the office said I could clean the apartment myself and I would only be charged for the things I didn't clean. Or I could pay $100 and have the apartment cleaned. So I spent an entire weekend cleaning the apartment when I moved out. It was spotless. Honestly it was cleaner than it was when I moved in. It certainly wasn't professionally cleaned before my move in, there was spaghetti sauce on the wall and spiders and silverfish in all the light fixtures. When I did my walk through for my move out the guy said it has to be professionally cleaned and that I'd be charged the $100 even though I spent soooooo much time cleaning because of what Anthony had told me before. I told him that Anthony said I could clean and I wouldn't be charged and the guy replied "I really wish they'd stop telling people that". So much mis-communication on their part cost me a lot of time and money. I'm guessing I'm not the first person this has happened to. On top of that they couldn't find the paper work for my move out walk through. The one he found was dated for like 2006. Clearly they are not very organized which isn't very reassuring considering the personal info they have on all the tenants. And I would almost guarantee they won't have it professionally cleaned. I emailed Maribel the office manager to give her a forwarding address for my security deposit and let her know about the move out cleaning issue...which is what the guy who did my move out told me to do. She replied saying she updated my address but that everyone has to get the apartment professionally cleaned at move out and that it was on the notice to vacate, which I never received. I emailed her back saying I never received a notice to vacate. I'd like to see where I signed something saying it was required for the apartment to be professionally cleaned! She never replied. Anyways about 3 weeks ago, (right around the 21 days they have to send you you're deposit back) I get a call saying they need a forwarding address. Clearly Maribel didn't update it, even though I have in writing that I sent her my address. And I have her reply stating she updated it. I've emailed her numerous times since then with no response. And I still haven't gotten my money back. This place will nickel and dime you for everything but when it's time to give you your money back don't expect it.